Recovering a Backup file using a computer - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

I have an SX66 and I dropped it in a cup of water, dried it out overnite tried to get it to work no luck.
Cingular is sending me out a new for $225 but in the meantime I need access to my contacts and such. I stored a backup on an SD card awhile back and I was wondering if there was a program that would allow me to look at the info and maybe put it into Outlook in the meantime.
If you wondering why I didn't have it synced and backed up on a computer the reason is cause the water got spilled on the device while I was reformatting the computer I sync it with.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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help i lost my contacts in a cdma mogul

hi, i have the stock wm6 in the mogul and i got it wet, later, i just changed the battery, because it was damaged, then i searched my contacts and none of them the guy who i bought the battery, he told me that inside there is a backup of your contacts, the things is that i don't find them, please help, thanks
While this really isn't the right forum (Mogul is the HTC Titan, not the Hermes), I can tell you that, unless you've synced your contacts to a computer or an Exchange server, they are most likely lost.
If you had a backup program (PIM Backup) running periodically doing backups to an SD card, then your contacts may be there inside the .pib backup file.
Maybe you should have written them all down on a piece of paper

Dash screen black and need contacts

Hi all,
I have a problem that I hope you can help with. I have a TMobile Dash that isn't working. Well, everything works just fine except the screen...lol. The screen is totally black and I can't see what I'm doing. TMobile has sent me a replacement phone, as mine was still under warranty. In fact, since this is the second Dash I've had a similar problem with, they allowed me to upgrade to the Dash 3G!!
Here's my problem...My contacts were NOT saved to my SIM card and I can't see what I'm doing, on the phone. So, I've hooked the phone to my laptop, via USB, and am attempting to find my contacts, so I can at least see them, to type them into the new phone. Any suggestions where to look? ORRRR Anyway to give me button by button instructions for moving my contacts to my SIM card? LOL. I've also attempted to use Windows Mobile Device Center, but it won't let me chance Sync Content Settings because I don't have Outlook. The only Content Settings it will Sync are files, but not contacts.
Basically, I need my contacts in the new phone. I can't see the screen of the old phone. I can hook either phone to laptop though. I have Vista, so Active Sync isn't an option. I've heard that there's software, available on this forum, that will allow me to hook my phone to computer, and use computer monitor as phone screen.
Any and all suggestions would be well appreciated!!
My Mobiler
Will not sync but will allow you to see the screen and copy the contents, will still need to make a connection via active sync etc.
Stylez, thank you very much!! Worked just great!!

Orbit stuck on green screen, need to get data!

Hi everyone!
First post, have tried to find something similar in old threads/search but had no luck.
This evening, whilst composing text messages, my xda orbit became very sluggish and slow and kept freezing, which only a soft rest would solve. After happening 6 or 7 times, the soft reset now goes no further than the green "windows mobile direct push technology" screen (the one which follows the blue o2 screen).
Active sync on the PC does not detect the phone. Have read about bootloader etc but cant seem to get past the coloured screen or get it to sync with the PC and I dont have an SD card reader.
Have tried removing simcard, SD card, leaving off for a while etc. With my contract sim the green light at the top flashes (indicating a signal?) but phoning the phone gets no reply (although it does ring, doesnt go straight to voicemail) but on my PAYG Sim I dont get the flashing light. Every 2 minutes the phone lights up brighter then dims 20 seconds later (which is what my dimmer was set to time-wise when the phone worked). I have never installed any hardware or software on top of the original defaults other than a sandisk 1gb SD card approx 1 year ago.
Now I know and have read than a hard reset may fix this (before anyone suggests it). However, I have some VERY important data on the phone which I have to retrieve (in the form of a few hundred very important text messages containing data, and a huge contact list, the backup of has been lost). The data in these texts and contact list is paramount to me.
So, is there ANY way to get this data from the phone before hard resetting to get the phone to work? To be honest i'm not bothered about the handset/phone itself working I just desperately want the data?
Any help at all would be very much appreciated (and i'm no techie by the way, just a simpleton lol!).
Thanks in advance, happy to set up some sort of Paypal reward scheme for anyone that can sort this as this data is as close to life or death as it gets without it being life or death lol!
PS: For example, is there a way of taking the phones integrated memory card out (with all the contacts and texts intact) and getting the data from it either onto a PC or into another handset?
PPS: Anyone in the South East of England who wants to earn a few quid and can sort this in person feel free to offer!
UPDATE
Well, today I switched it on and it was still the same, and again the same 5 hours later, then suddenly it perked up and everything worked!! I managed to get it to sync, copied the pim file (which I think is the contacts?) onto my PC and then it froze again. Soft reset and now stuck on green screen.
If the magical happens and it flickers into life one final time, where exactly on an orbit are all text messages stored? If I can copy the folder onto the PC, hard reset, then copy it back I should have them all?
There are a few .vol files - PIM.VOL is the contacts/calendar one, and theres another one for messages, but I cannot remember what it is called unfortunately...
OK, thankyou! There's been some more developments!
If I soft rest the phone around 5 times then leave it on the charger (even if it's fully charged) for around 5 hours the phone jumps into life! However, doing things for any length of time freezes the phone.
Added Pimbackup via activesync and it retrieves all the messages fine, but freezes at the point of eginning to add them to the SD card.
Active sync wont let me into most of the folders on the device (such as the windows folder).
So, I can get on the phone eventually but does anyone have ANY ideas as to how I can backup or transfer text messages etc?
TIA

What The Hell!!

Just got my tp2 from Tmobile. I had them transfer my contacts from my other phone.
I put about 5 cab files on the phone and for some reason the synch was jamming so i restarted the phone and now everything is gone.
The cab folder i had in programs for all of the cab files the people i had saved on my main screen weather email etc.... Seems like it did a factory reset.
What did i do wrong? should i put the cab files on a micro sd card?
Anybody have a problem synching?
I really don't want to keep a phone that i have to worry about.
jaybirdy2k said:
Just got my tp2 from Tmobile. I had them transfer my contacts from my other phone.
I put about 5 cab files on the phone and for some reason the synch was jamming so i restarted the phone and now everything is gone.
The cab folder i had in programs for all of the cab files the people i had saved on my main screen weather email etc.... Seems like it did a factory reset.
What did i do wrong? should i put the cab files on a micro sd card?
Anybody have a problem synching?
I really don't want to keep a phone that i have to worry about.
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Nope sync works great ..
Q> should i put the cab files on a micro sd card?
A> Yes
BLUETOOTH!
jaybirdy2k said:
Just got my tp2 from Tmobile. I had them transfer my contacts from my other phone.
I put about 5 cab files on the phone and for some reason the synch was jamming so i restarted the phone and now everything is gone.
The cab folder i had in programs for all of the cab files the people i had saved on my main screen weather email etc.... Seems like it did a factory reset.
What did i do wrong? should i put the cab files on a micro sd card?
Anybody have a problem synching?
I really don't want to keep a phone that i have to worry about.
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What was your former phone? If you were using a smartphone, I'd suggest you bluetooth your phone book. I just switched years of info and thousands of contacts from another platform to my TP2 via bluetooth and it worked perfectly for me.
I use "Microsoft My phone" when I upgraded from the Kaiser to the Rhodium I just signed on and got all my contacts ringtones contact photos SMS and everything, now my Rodium looks like I been using it all this time and the best part is all you have to do is just let it sync its all automatic

I need help trying to restore my phone after a factory reset, where it did not auto-restore.

So, my A5 2017 was giving my problems so I backed it up to Samsung backup, or at least I tried. I thought I read somewhere that Samsung stoppped their backup service for that phone, and said to back up using Google. So., I also backed up there.
The thing is, the problem happend while I was away and couldn't get it looked at right away. I thought I was SOL, but I looked at my Google backup and the date is still from before the reset! I just don't know how to tell it to restore the phone using what's in my Google cloud storage.
If that ends up not being possible I did manually save as many files as I could. Even going into directories that the phone said were empty but still would show files if you went down the rabbit hole deep enough. All I really want are my contacts, whcih I THINK I exported to a file anyways, and just as important, my text message history. If I could get back what I had in my Notes app that would be great too, but that's way down the list.
Does anyways know how I would do this? I do see in the Google settings that I can restore the contacts, or so it says, but I looked in the cloud folders and there are 2 zip files that start with "takeout" and then I think a dash and numbers. I looked in them and it definitely has way more then just my contacts in it.
I'm a small business owner and I use this phone for work, so losing all the texts is actually kind of a problem. I actually didn't realize how much so until it happend.
Thank you very much for any help you can offer!
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